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Facies analysis and depositional model for the Oxfordian Hanifa Formation, Central Saudi Arabia by Mazin Bashri; Michael A. Kaminski; Osman Abdullatif; John Humphrey; Mohammed Makkawi; Rudy Swennen; Omer Ali; Ammar Adam; Moaz Salih; Jarrah Babiker is a Earth and Planetary Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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The Jurassic was a time for major global changes in climate, tectonics, and oceanography, reflected in the southern Neo-Tethys Ocean by a distinct transition from carbonate-poor to carbonate-dominated sedimentation. To better constrain the effect of this turning point in the Late Jurassic, key outcrops of Oxfordian deposits of the Arabian Plate were investigated through detailed sedimentologic analysis. High-resolution (centimeter-scale) description and analysis of eight outcropping sections with a cumulative thickness of 461 m through the Oxfordian Hanifa Formation along a N–S 535 km-long transect in central Saudi Arabia are used to develop a comprehensive conceptual depositional evolution through time. Nine sedimentary lithofacies are interpreted and grouped into four facies associations. These associations include: I) outer-ramp association (FA1), II) mid-ramp association (FA2), III) inner-ramp grainy-facies association (FA3), and VI) inner-ramp reefal association (FA4). The lithofacies succession distinguishes two depositional phases, a middle Oxfordian homoclinal ramp (Phase 1) that corresponds to the Hawtah Member, and a late Oxfordian reef-bearing carbonate ramp (Phase 2) th
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- Author
- Mazin Bashri; Michael A. Kaminski; Osman Abdullatif; John Humphrey; Mohammed Makkawi; Rudy Swennen; Omer Ali; Ammar Adam; Moaz Salih; Jarrah Babiker
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)